On 08/16/2016 08:21 AM, Stanislav Laznicka wrote:
On 08/12/2016 06:48 PM, Petr Spacek wrote:
On 11.8.2016 12:34, Stanislav Laznicka wrote:
Hello,
I updated the design of the Time-Based HBAC Policies according to the
discussion we led here earlier. Please check the design page
http://www.freeipa.org/page/V4/Time-Based_Account_Policies. The biggest
changes are in the Implementation and Feature Management sections. I
also
added a short How to Use section.
Thank you for the review! I will add some comments inline.
Nice page!
On the high level it all makes sense.
ad LDAP schema
==============
1) Why accessTime attribute is MAY in ipaTimeRule object class?
Does it make sense to have the object without accessTime? I do not
think so.
My idea was that we allow users prepare a few time rule objects before
filling them with the actual times.
Also, it could be good to add description attribute to the object
class and
incorporate it into commands (including find).
Definitely a good idea, I will work that in.
2) Besides all this, I spent few minutes in dark history of IPA. The
accessTime attribute was introduced back in 2009 in commit
"55ba300c7cb59cf05b16cc01281f51d93eb25acf" aka "Incorporate new
schema for IPAv2".
The commit does not contain any reasoning for the change but I can
see that
the attribute is already used as MAY in old object classes
ipaHBACRule and
ipaSELinuxUserMap.
Is any of these a problem?
I believe that the accessTime attribute was originally brought to IPA
when there was an implementation of time policies for HBAC objects and
it's been rotting there ever since those capabilities were removed. We
may eventually use a new attribute for storage of the time strings as
accessTime by definition is multi-valued which is not what's currently
desired (although we may end up with it some day in the future).
However, I don't think any other use of accessTime should be a problem
as it's been obsoleted for a long time.
Why is it even in ipaSELinuxUserMap object class?
I'm sorry to say I have no idea. I used it for what it originally was
- a means for storing time strings at HBAC rules.
Commit
55512dc938eb4a9a6655e473beab587e340af55c does not mention any reason
for doing so.
I cannot see any other problem so the low-level stuff is good and can be
implemented.
ad User interface
=================
We need to polish the user interface so it really usable.
At least the web interface should contain some shortcuts. E.g. when
I'm adding
a new HBAC rule, the "time" section should contain also "something" to
immediately add new time rule so I do not need to go to time rules
first and
then go back to HBAC page.
I'm definitely for creating a field where admin can choose a existing
time rule when creating a new HBAC. But I'm not sure about possibility
to create and define new time rule in dialog for creating new HBAC. I
think that mixing these two things together is like a possibility to
create a new user when you are creating a user group. Which is mixing
two different things together. I can imagine a button like "Create HBAC
and add a new time rule to it" which could store new HBAC rule and
immediately take admin to the page (or dialog) where admin can create a
new time rule with prefilled HBAC rule. But as you write below it would
be good to discuss it with some UX designer.
Similarly, dialog for rule modification should allow to easily change
all the
values, warn if time rules is shared, and also have an easy way to
'disconnect' the time rule, i.e. make a copy of it and edit only the
new copy
(instead of the shared original).
All of these points are really good.
All these are user interface things not affecting the low-level stuff.
Maybe you should sat down with some UX designer, talk about these
cases and
draw some hand-made pictures.
I will add Pavel V. to CC, we may want to discuss this.
I do not believe that this will require any changes in schema so you can
polish SSSD and framework implementation in meantime.
On the link below is a PROTOTYPE-patched FreeIPA that covers most of
the CLI
functionality (except for the creation of iCalendar strings from
options) for
better illustration of the design.
https://github.com/stlaz/freeipa/tree/timerules_2
Honestly I did not look at the code today :-)
Overall, I'm glad to see current proposal. After so many iteration,
we reached
something which does not have any glaring problem :-)
It definitely felt better to be writing it with all the previous
knowledge. Thank you! :-)
--
Pavel^3 Vomacka
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